The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-09
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him to givethe chickens feed out of it, He
did SO, andthe following morning he gathered
up forty-thfee dead chickens. Il IS not known
what was il the meal
THE Michigan Central grounds at Marshall
Mich. are made up of mucl1y soil that is moth
ing less thar peat when dry About n month
ago they caught fire, and have been burning
ever since, despite the efforts of the company to
stop it. The fire has now Travelled some fifty
rods from where it started and is still going 1t
burns several teet deep in some places.
L. b. GOLDSMITH one of the oldest Captains
on the great LAKES, was in the pilot house the
other day when his boat, the Progress, stopped
at Oakland, Mica AS she was making the dock
the crew noticed that something was wrong
with the Captains signals, and one of them
went up and founf the old man lying dead with
the bell rope in his hand. He was rs years old.
THE Omaha Void cuts off one of Col. Buffalo
Bill Cody's titles at one fell swoop when it says
that he was never member of the Nebraska
Legislature. 1t declares that he ran once in
Buffalo county against q man named AShburton
and received his certificate of election. Ash
burton contested the seat and won, but before
the case was decided Cody sent in his resgna-
tion.
AT his st. Paul reception the Earl of Aberdeen
wore black silk stockings, low patent leather
slippers with black ribbon bow, the customary
black coat and trousers, the former almost i'm
perceptibly ''cutawsy:" a white vest with lapelS
and four buttons displayed, still whittier and
polished shirt front with two pearl studs. A
standing collar with turned over points and q
white necktie completed bis outward attire.
THE elementary schools in England and Wales
have been more than doubled since 1870 and
the number of teachers has more than trebled.
Though there has been considerable increase
in board schools during the year, they are still
comparatively few compared with the Church
of England schools, the number being 4.4O2 and
Il FNpr SCHOLAR
in the former than in the latter-in other words,
board schools cost the rate payers more but the
parents less than the church schools cost their
subscribers aud parents.
The first name of Lsadville, Col, was Agas-
siz, but it did not suit for some reason, and
when the time came for the formal adoption of
a legal name there was something of a contro-
versy. A strong faction desired to call the
camp Harrison, after St Louis gentleman. but
q storekeeper named Tabor was bent on having
Leatvlle As he was the Oldest resident and
carried many of the inhabitants on his books
for flour and bacon he won the choice of names.
To please the other side, however, the principal
avenue was named Harrison.
A WASHINGTON DISPATCH states that the Clerk
of the House Of Representatives is opening and
collating the testimony in contested election
cases in the list of membership of that branch
of the Fiftieth Congress. The contest of
Thoebe against Carlisle has apparently been
abandoned, no papers have been received by
the Clerk on that subject The Democratic ma
| Jorty is sixteen, with two vacances-one in the
Second Rhode Island district and one in the
Twenty-fffth New York district, in the place of
Hiscock, elected to the United States Senate.
CHARLES G. LELAND has been folklore HINT
ing in Florence. He writes to the new number
of the Folklore Journol to say that he finds
it a land of promise of the most abundant fields
that he has ever examined. His letter contains
astory of witch's ladder which exhibits new
l,,l,a
child died here i'll Florence by witchcraft. 1t
began to waste away. The parents took it
about everywhere for cure or advice, but
nothing r,5tlg did it any, good It withered and
day in its bed Ia Streghria, or the witchcraft
which had killed it. First there was figure
like that of a cock made of cotton, stuck full
with feathers. With this was a long twisted
cord also stuck full of feathers, put in cross
WISE
ONE of the. oldest landmarks of Pennsylvania
| Democracy, Oramel Barrett, died on Wednes-
| day evening, at the horne of his son, in Ale
| gheny City, at the ago of So. Mr.. Barrett
| edited the Keystone a Democratic weekly, at
| Harrisburg, from 1854 to1S56, when he and his
| partner. Haldemand, started the daily and
| weekly Patriot Ond Union. During the war he
| was imprisoned because of q buresque placard
| which his printers got up to ridicule the first
call for colored troops, hit was released through
| the mediation of Simon Cameron and A. X.
| Mcclure. The deceasedwas prominent Mason
! and was with Thad Stevens during the Morgan
| riot in Harrisburg in his flight through the rear
| window of the State house and in his place of
| concealment on the river bank. In 1866 he
| went to Pittsburg and was employed in an
| editorial capacity on the Pttsburg Post. He
consistently refused all offers of support for
| public office.
AN exciting scene which occurred in me-
nagerie at Stafford, in England, is thus described
by the st. James Gazette: "A woman named
Moryy ubr l, 4
| was inspecting the animals and eventually came
to the cage in which a young leopard was con
| fined In order that it might obtain better
| view of the animal, she lifted the child up in
| front of the cage, and. then put forward her
hand as though to stroke the leopard. Her hand
almost touched the bars OF the cage, and before
she could withdraw it the leopard had seized her
| arm between its paws. The screams of the
woman, who had been previously cautioned not
to go too near the cages, brought several people
around her. including a young man who tried TO
| wrest her arm from the clutch of the leopard.
| Not succeeding in this he hit the animal which
| had forced its head against the iron bars, q
| heavy blow on its nose. This compelled it to re-
linquish its grasp The woman's arm was seri-
| ously lacerated."
THE President is entitled to hearty praise for
| his selection Of Miss Alice G. Fletcher as Indian
agent to allot lands in severalty under the
Dawes bill to the Indians of the Winnebago res
ervation in Nebraska. The agents who are to
nave TINS matter IN charge on the various reSer-
vations have it in their power to materially as
| sist the work or to seriously obsiruct it, Miss
Fletcher by her noble laborS among the Omahas
OF Nebraska has shown her ability to win and
hold the confidence and respect of the Indians,
and also to induce them TO undertake the white
mans path Of civilization and self-support.
| Miss Fletcher herself drafted the bill securing
to the Omahas their reservation and allowing
them to take lands in severaty, and she herself
vt the request of the department supervised the
work of allotment, an arduous task, the bard
ships of which nearly cost her her life and have
left her a cripple. She has the missionary spirit
and faith in the success of the new departure
which is founded on knowledge of the Indian
character. In her new work she will have the
sincere good wishes Of all who know her.
A PARIS correspondent of the London Stand
ard teegraphs ION Saturday last the Police
Commissary at Befort received instructions TO
look closely to luggage train due on that day
on the frontier from Hamburg, and particularly
to search any package addressed toa NJ Gadala,
at Lyons. No coutrabaud was spoken of in the
instructions he received and he was to detain
nothing that might lawfully pass. but to make n
report on anything that struck him as note
W rthy. The luggage train arrived punctuallv.
and the merchandise was looked into. Nothing
out OF the way was found, until rough deal
b addressed to Gadala, Lyons was opened
IL contained 5000 handsomely executed chrome
Autographs bearing the stamp OF a Hamburg
house. They were equestrian portraits of Gen
Boulanger salutng an enthusiastic French
crowd. The only moral to be deduced from
this il that traders will try and seize their adj.
vantage wherever they can find il. NJ Gadala